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Smokers butt out as birds nest in Norwich cigarette bin
Mariam Issimdar,BBC News, Norfolk
A pair of blue tits forced smokers to dispose of their dog ends elsewhere after taking up residence in a cigarette bin.
The birds nested in the bin at Norwich Research Park, and a notice was attached asking smokers to use a bucket instead.
Healthcare technician Mark Pointer said a colleague alerted him to the nesting birds.
“As we got close to the cigarette box, a bird popped out, which I recognised as a blue tit,” he said.
The bin is in a smoking shelter at the park’s Innovation Centre.
“Anyone who went down for a cigarette then stood to the other side of the shelter, and observed how the nesting materials went down, and then maybe 10 eggs went in there,” said Mr Pointer.
“Obviously people kept away from it and only had a look inside when the birds had disappeared to see the eggs.
“And about 14 days later, they started hearing chicks and then the blue tits going in and out of the nest.”
Mr Pointer said the chicks had now fledged and left the cigarette bin, but said staff enjoyed the experience of observing them.
Mr Pointer has also discovered great tits nesting a traffic cone between some saplings in the work car park.
“I could hear these chicks crying for food and I was thinking ‘Where are they?'” he said.
“Birds are very creative. This pair of great tits obviously made a nest in the bottom there.
“So they were basically going into the top of the cone, which had a hole in it, and they were feeding the chicks who were nestled at the bottom.”
He said he then put a notice near the cone and the birds successfully fledged at the weekend.
According to the RSPCA, in England and Wales all wild birds, their young, nests and eggs are protected under the Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981.
Any disturbance could kill or hurt the wild birds and their young – or cause them to abandon their nests, eggs and young.
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